The collection contains information about the Gans family as well as materials related to the jurist Eduard Gans and his descendant Edward Gans, a numismatist. Series I: Genealogy of Gans and Lande Families contains family trees, correspondence and other genealogical materials about the Gans and Lande families. Series II: Eduard Gans contains materials by and about Eduard Gans, such as photographs, articles, speeches and obituaries. Series III: Gans Family Correspondence contains genealogical correspondence as well as correspondence concerning foundation of a Jewish publishing firm, (1936-1937) with Leon Algazi, Benno Balan, Paul Emden, Edmond Fleg, Victor Gollencz, Oskar Guttmann, Ernst Hainauer, Emil Hauser, Henri Hinrichsen, Paul Hirsch, Industrie und Handelskammer, Berlin, Gerhart Jacoby, Alfred Kalmus, Paul Kern, S. Kramarsky, Leonid Kreutzer, Maria Lanckoronska, Frederic Lederer, Otto Lilien, Kurt Loewenstein, Darius Milhaud, M. Perlzweig, Franz Roizenstein, Robert Robitschek, Martin Rosenblueth, Richard Schauer, Kurt Singer, Arthur Stern, Bruno Walter, Max Warburg, Karl Wiener, Hans Wolff. The bulk of the collection consists of Series IV: Numismatics and contains Edward Gans' correspondence related to numismatics. The following individuals are mentioned in this collection: Gans, Edward; Gans, Isaac Jacob; Algazi, Leon; Balan, Benno; Emden, Paul; Fleg, Edmond; Gollancz, Victor; Guttmann, Oskar; Hainauer, Ernst; Hauser, Emil; Hinrichson, Henri; Hirsch, Paul; Jacoby, Gerhardt; Kalmus, Alfred; Kern, Paul; Kramarsky, S.; Kreutzer, Leonid; Lanckoronska, Maria; Laube, Heinrich; Lederer, Frederic; Lilien, Otto; Loewenstein, Kurt; Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix; Milhaud, Darius; Perlzweig, rabbi; Roizenstein, Franz; Rosenblueth, Martin; Schaaf, Friedrich; Schauer, Richard; Singer, Kurt; Stern, Arthur; Walter, Bruno; Warburg, Max; Wiener, Karl; Wolff, Hans .The following families are mentioned in this collection: Gans family; Lande family.
Eduard Gans (1798-1839) was a jurist and professor of law in Berlin. Together with Leopold Zunz he founded the Society for Jewish Culture and Science in 1819. He was a disciple of Hegel and converted to Christianity in 1825.
Edward Gans was a banker in Germany. After he immigrated to the US he became a dealer of ancient coins and fine arts of various kinds. He donated his coin collection together with an archive containing book publications on seals and similar objects, sets of archaeological magazines, and his correspondence with experts in various fields to the Department of Near Eastern Studies of the University of California at Berkeley.
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